You know you're an old gamer when...
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Absinth_Incubus,
Posted on: 2006-03-24 05:32 in Player Guides
We used to own a HUGE white Ford stationwagon..with the carbon monoxide seat!
<<smiley that sat in the seat all the time...
My friend actually owns a lime green Gremlin...
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You ask in broadcast if someone can jaunt you to the gate.
5 pts to whoever remembers what jaunting is from!
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Jaunting was either from a Heinlen or a Aisimov story (can't remember which, read it in middle school).
Edit: Found a Stephen King short story by the name the Jaunt, written in 1985, I'm pretty sure this is NOT the one that I read in middle school.
Edit again: It must be the story that I read, I could not find an older story... Not really King's style though.
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Jaunting was either from a Heinlen or a Aisimov story (can't remember which, read it in middle school).
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You are perhaps thinking of "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester? (Also sometimes titled Tyger, Tyger)
This is indeed where the term 'Jaunt' for teleport came from, which is why it was used in The Tomorrow People.
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"The Jaunt" was also a Steven King short story, I think it was part of the "Night Shift" collection. It had a pretty nasty punch at the end - ever wonder what happens in that microsecond 'tween ports?
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"The Jaunt" was also a Steven King short story, I think it was part of the "Night Shift" collection. It had a pretty nasty punch at the end - ever wonder what happens in that microsecond 'tween ports?
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Coolness. I shall have to track that one down.
When you bought and still own an original Atari 2600 before it was called an Atari 2600. Nothing says gaming goodness as a gaming system made out of wood. 
I remember all of the other stuff posted before.
You know your an old gamer when you see the same language used to describe every generation of games or computer equipment: " "Immersive". "High quality graphics" "blazinlgy fast speed" etc... 
Thay have used the sam language to cover everything from the Pong until today.
Torqumada
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If you mean the Starship Enterprise from TV it is in the National Air and Space Museum.
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*snort*
counter comment proving that some people AREN'T old gamers 
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"The Jaunt" was also a Steven King short story, I think it was part of the "Night Shift" collection. It had a pretty nasty punch at the end - ever wonder what happens in that microsecond 'tween ports?
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Skeleton Crew.
Starbuck isn't an asian chick, she's the blonde white chick, Boomer is the asian chick. Boomer in the original was a black guy. But you are right about Muffet, what's up with that?
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Actual Location: Inside the system itself.
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My main is in a small supergroup named C. A. P. E. R. It stands for "the Civilian Authority for the Protection of Everybody, Regardless." Does anyone else remember the show it comes from?
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Starbuck isn't an asian chick, she's the blonde white chick, Boomer is the asian chick. Boomer in the original was a black guy. But you are right about Muffet, what's up with that?
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Doesn't matter..Starbuck and Bomer should ALWAYS be guys!
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...but really, what the heck was up with this. Those were hideous (even moreso than those horrid box-shaped cars on the road today).
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I drove a Gremlin. It was my Grandfather's 2nd car and when he passed away, I got it in 1982. In 1984, the motor mounts broke, but I was in a situation where I had no money or time to get it fixed. I got some nylon string from a K-Mart and tied the engine back, so it did not slide into the fan.
I drove the car like that for 9 months before the string broke, and then tied the engine back again to keep it going for another couple of months. I then gave it to my always-down-on-his-luck brother-in-law, who drove it that way for another 8 months or so.
It was really ugly; Yellow and rusting out. At least I never had to worry that someone would steal it! It was my first standard-shift car.
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If you know what The Keep on the Borderlands
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LOL
Along with knowing what a "To Hit" table (or attack matrix) was, along with THAC0, and having to learn the new fangled BAB
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If you know what The Keep on the Borderlands
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Along with knowing what a "To Hit" table (or attack matrix) was, along with THAC0, and having to learn the new fangled BAB
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I had a sign cutom made to put in front of my house with this on it.
It sits on the end of a ridge line in the middle of 500 acres of farmland. 
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along with THAC0,
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Also if this is what went through your head the first time you saw the COV snake priest.
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... the first computer game you played was Colossal Cave, and you had to port it to your Osborne.
... your video card has more then 100x the memory of your first hard disk drive.
... your character's name is older than your PUG mates. But at 20 years, nowhere near as old as the geezers on this thread. ;-)
... Scott Adams to you means the game developer and not the cartoonist.
... you actually typed in the entire basic code into your TRS-80 to play Scott Adam's original adventure game.
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When you bought and still own an original Atari 2600 before it was called an Atari 2600. Nothing says gaming goodness as a gaming system made out of wood.
I remember all of the other stuff posted before.
You know your an old gamer when you see the same language used to describe every generation of games or computer equipment: " "Immersive". "High quality graphics" "blazinlgy fast speed" etc... Thay have used the sam language to cover everything from the Pong until today.
Torqumada
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You ask in broadcast if someone can jaunt you to the gate.
5 pts to whoever remembers what jaunting is from!
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Wasn't that some British live action show, the Tomorrow People or something like that?
. . . every guy your age can have a fairly involved conversation about which Transformer he liked best. (Grimlock FTW!)
. . . you owned the Masters of the Universe Evil Horde Slime Pit ("Evil Pit of Gruesome Ooze!").
. . . you owned the three figures that could not be used with the slime from the Slime Pit and still remember what they are.
. . . you never got slime from the Slime Pit on those three figures, but you did get it on the rug.
. . . you like to refer to anyone creepy as a "scaly underling of the sea." (10,000 inf. to anyone who knows this reference!)
. . . your father owned one of the first IBM PC's.
. . . your favorite game for that PC was Crush, Crumble & Chomp. (Does anyone else think we need an movie monster MMOG?)
. . . you know that the correct answer to, "What should Dirk do?" is generally "None of the above," or, more rarely, "Attack the Giddy Goons," but never, "Attack the Mudbulps." That may have been my favorite Saturday morning cartoon.
Speaking of Dirk the Daring, one of my favorite childhood memories was from around the time Dragon's Lair came out. Only a few arcades had the game, and this was long before home computers or Atari-type machines could handle a game like that. No place near where I grew up had it. The first time I saw it was at an amusement park in another state. The arcade it was in was so crowded that my father had to pick me up so I could see the screen in the mirror over the game. I even remember where in the game it was- the room where Dirk encounters a evil knight who moves around on a chessboard-like floor. I've always wondered if the guy playing it made it out of that room.
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Bah, that's not old. I don't remember much about the Transformers or He-Man because I was in college when those cartoons came out. And I didn't play Dragon's Lair much -- too patterened. I was over on the Joust machine. A friend of mine and I made a great team. He could outclimb the blues (I couldn't) and I could hover at the top of the screen (which he couldn't do). Between us, those buzzards were dead.
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"The Jaunt" was also a Steven King short story, I think it was part of the "Night Shift" collection. It had a pretty nasty punch at the end - ever wonder what happens in that microsecond 'tween ports?
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Actually I remember the Tomorrow People playing on PBS when I was a kid. I never got into the show, but I liked the theme music for some reason. I have an MP3 of it somewhere.
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....when people you are playing with go, 'There was a Battlestar Galactica before this one??'
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I refuse to watch the new one because:
1)where the hell is Muffet?!
and 2) STARBUCK IS NOT AN ASIAN CHICK! 
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Actually, its pretty darned good. You should give it a try, Mirra.
When a team member says "Wow, you're older than my dad".
...you played PC games on cassette tapes.
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I knew I wouldn't get my five points...
But have you seen _the_ doctor in a Sinbad movie? (Golden Voyage in this case) My dad took me to all 3 of the Harryhausen Sinbads in the theater. Wasn't until years later I realized it was the doc. Tommy plays a great villain.
And once again, the old gamer thread comes back to haunt me...
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He was also in the crappy D&D movie that came out a few years ago.
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Thankfully, since I only understand AD&D 2.0, I never caught the movie, released far after that ruleset.
What's possibly more crappy is not playing, sitting here waiting to see if I have to pick up my daughter. Which of course gets me back to being an old gamer (it's really too easy). And in that vein, you may be an old gamer if:
...you ever saw a lot of these critters driving around.
...your family had a woodpaneled station wagon (and it wasn't used) [heck, maybe this should be amended to just a station wagon]
...your neighborhood had one Delorean, before Back to the Future
...but really, what the heck was up with this. Those were hideous (even moreso than those horrid box-shaped cars on the road today).
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